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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.
2 He passed his hand over the brown wash-rag of a back.
3 When we came in she held us silent for a moment with a lifted hand.
4 Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.
5 The familiar expression held no more familiarity than the hand which reassuringly brushed my shoulder.
6 Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
7 She was hurrying off as she talked--her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door.
8 The man peered doubtfully into the basket, plunged in his hand and drew one up, wriggling, by the back of the neck.
9 He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.
10 Mr. McKee regarded her intently with his head on one side and then moved his hand back and forth slowly in front of his face.
11 You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
12 Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand.
13 She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses who stopped at the foot of the steps.
14 He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it--signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
15 She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see.
16 A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
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